Utopian Quotations

There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.

It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s.

Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

It's a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.

My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote a Utopian novel. It was a kind of allegory or fairy tale.

Nonie and I are not talking about a utopian future where everybody will hug and kiss and everything will be behind us. We're talking about teaching another way to look at 'the other' with tolerance and the maturity to acknowledge ideas outside the culture of hatred around us.

Maybe it's because I come from a very utopian world of being a comedian, but I'm used to many live comedy performances going on in any city I'm in, and each of us is trying to be the best at what we do. I don't think of it as a competition so much as a thriving comedy economy.

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness.

I rode the buses in L.A. until I was in my early 30s, and there's something about driving or riding through L.A. after sundown, when the Utopian city goes into hiding and another city comes out, more Doors and less Byrds.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.

To see you when I wake upIs a gift I didn't think could be real.To know that you feel the same as I doIs a three-fold, utopian dream.

the utopian social hope which sprang up in nineteenth-century Europe is still the noblest imaginative creation of which we have record.

This is not the utopian comprehensive solution to campaign finance. But this is a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.

In their matching candy-stripe shirts, the Beach Boys were America's biggest band of the early '60s, transmitting utopian bulletins of summer without end to a cold and overcast nation.

At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides.

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

A project once seen as utopian has become reality,

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

They're real people. It's a look into the future that's not going to be a perfect utopian future. Joss was able to portray people with flaws, imperfect people, tyrannical people, people who can be both heroic and self-centered.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.

Home is pretty utopian.

Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.